The study of anesthesiology has greatly expanded to encompass in its spectrum the care of the most critical patients in the hospital. This article addresses the basic tenets of intensive care unit (ICU); its organization, composition, components, modern technical armamentarium and concludes with a prologue to brain death and its determination.

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Hello ladies and gentlemen.
Welcome back to our Seriesof Lectures on Anesthesiology. Today we're going
to make a change in direction and talk about IntensiveCare Medicine. What Intensive Care is?
The different types of Intensive Care.
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The qualifications of intensivists, whether they be
nurses or doctors. And many of the conditionsthat are treated in the Intensive Care Unit.
We'll also talk about special drugsin the ICU and some special devices that are used
in the ICU. So, what is an intensive care unit? Well,it's an specialized unit in the hospital
where the sickest patients are cared for.
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The physicians and staff in the ICU have special training
to allow them to care for these very sick patients.
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There are drugs that are only used
in the ICU and highly sophisticatedpieces of equipment which assist in providing care.
The majority of patients in the ICU will havemore than one critical illnesses and more
than one organ system, so it is extremelycommon in the ICU for patients to have
multisystem organ disease. So,how does anesthesia fit into all of this? Well,
the Operating Room is often seen as an ICU.
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And anesthesiologists are often the primary
physician in the ICU. Particularlyin rural hospitals where there aren't
a lot of subspecialty physicians,it's often the anesthesiologists who take on the care
of the most critically ill patients in the ICU.

About the Lecture

The lecture Special Employees and Conditions in the ICU: Introduction by Brian Warriner, MD is from the course The ICU.

Included Quiz Questions

The sickest patients are cared for in which specialized area of the hospital?

Intensive Care Unit

Emergency Department

Post-Anesthesia Care Unit

Geriatric Unit

Wards

Which specialist is most often the primary physician in the ICU?

Anesthesiologists

Radiologists

Emergency physicians

Surgeons

Endocrinologists

Author of lecture Special Employees and Conditions in the ICU: Introduction

Brian Warriner, MD

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